Drive in the right lane pass in the left. Fucking Americans do not understand this concept

That's how it's done on the Jersey Turnpike

Youse got a problem wit' dat?

If more motorists rode bikes, raced bikes and/or took part in advanced level group rides with good working echelons the roads would be safer, and we would all get to where ever we are going faster. The thing that a good working group ride and echelon has is, cooperation - that's almost non existent on the road*. For many drivers, it's like their are NO other vehicles on the road - just their's. It's this extraordinary level of selfishness and entitlement that often leads to problems.

Indeed - drive right and pass left. It's pretty straight forward. Also - look well down the road and anticipate things, and traffic movement and patterns so that you can maintain your flow/speed but also of others - let another driver in, so they don't have to jam the brakes on, or massively accelerate to make a gap.

* I do see this level of cooperation among truck drivers, and I'm always on the look out for them, as I am looking out for myself. Again, in terms of flow, I let the truck into the gap - give him a little flash of the lights to let him know, I'm giving him the space to do that . . and so on. Whereas I see so many drivers drive on up right behind a truck on the left and then maybe a truck on the right or long line of cars - that car now has no where to go safely - no safe out! And they will just end up driving along in that dead-end spot for a while.

You'd not last one junction in germany ;)

I've driven plenty on the autobahns. Here is what I love. People approach you in the fast lane and flick their lights. You move over. Simple and easy and NOT an act of aggression. I love driving in Germany.

But how are you finding the gong show that is the pat bay highway?

Seen a few FB links to articles bitching about people who hog the 'fast' lane. The responses are as typical as a bikes vs cars new story. People boasting about tail gaiting, flashing lights etc General intimidation. The degree that people try and justify it is amusing. Many hang their hat on it coming down to inaccurate speedos with both people actually within the limit but one being more inaccurate (thus slower) than another.

My younger brother and older sister, both docs (so possibly with God complexes), are most definitely in the keep right (well keep left here) camp. Yet I know that both are compulsive speeders. I love stirring them up that if everyone just did the speed limit there would be no reason to pass. Thought I've most definitely found myself frustrated at being blocked in, I personally despise speeding much more. But then I've grown up driving big old heavy (slow) cars.

So which camp are you in? Is this the worst road behaviour in your eyes?

If I'm doing 80 in the No. 1 lane then I'm not going to get out of your way if you want to go faster than that

There's not a chance in hell that the person blocking a lane is more dangerous than the person speeding. It's a choice of an individual to illegally tailgate, or swerve to pass on the inside etc, and cause the accident. Once they make that choice then it's their fault and theirs alone. It's like saying women that dress provactively are the cause of rape. The two distinct acts might invoke a series of emotions but it's the person acting out on those who is at fault.

Keep right when I'm not doing 80 (which is 99% of the time), which seems to be the commonly accepted speed for the No. 1 lane here in Southern California. If I'm doing 80 in the No. 1 lane then I'm not going to get out of your way if you want to go faster than that; in such case it's up to you to work to attain your desired speed. Have fun passing me!

One of the main contributors to the problem you describe is the reluctance of people to move to the right when there is not an enormous gap to do so. People tend to over-estimate how much space they need to move to the right, and are afraid of not being able to get back into the left lane when they get to the next car. So they say, f'k it, I'll just hold my place in the queue in the left lane. It all comes back to this weird fear many people have of changing lanes. Basically they can't be bothered to give their driving the attention it needs to do so.

Pretty simple, the left lane is for passing. If you're not passing someone, move the hell over. I guess that puts me in the keep right camp.

What a fucked up attitude. If there is space to the right, then you should be in the right hand lane. It's not up to you to determine the speed of everyone else.

My writing was unclear. If there's safe room on the right then I travel on the right and/or I'd move aside for faster traffic behind me in the No. 1 lane (and then I'd slide back into the No. 1 lane after they passed me); but if there's no safe room on the right then I'm not going to cut off someone in the No. 2 lane to let the (other) speeder through just so the (other) speeder can tailgate the person in front of me in the No. 1 lane. Let me know if that doesn't make sense. The person behind me can go F themselves* and deal with the fact that traffic's heavy that day - I'm not going to endanger slower traffic in the No. 2 lane just so the person behind me can move up 50 feet or whatever my following distance is.

*As can you, Sally.

So you admit you're writing was unclear, and then tell me to F myself? Wow, you are an asshole. And, you just pretty much admitted to being the problem....if there is room in the right lane, WTF are you doing sliding back into the left lane after somebody has passed you? WTF do you NOT understand about staying right except to pass? Is that your special lane or something?

Your designating yourself "Crank" was fairly prescient, as it is fairly obvious you are indeed a tool.

LOL. You must be one who road rages. I laugh at people like you.

I should have pointed out that I'm not one to sit there as though it's my right.

maybe somebody you'll get it. Keep trying Sparky!